PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16508, 25 March 1914, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Mr and Mrs F. W. M'Lean. left fofc Wellington last evening.

Mr T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., left for' Wellington last evening.

Mr J. R. Watt left for th© north. last evening.

Messrs A. H. Fowler and N. N. Doughty left for Wellington last night.

Mr A. J. Rattray and "Mr P. D. Duncan left for Wellington last night.

Mr W. Wood left for Wellington last evening.

Mr James Findlay left for Wellington last evening.

Mr G. H. Scales left for the north last evening.

Mr J. D. Bruce, Mayor of Ross, ar- ~ rived in Christchurch last night.

. The Hon C. A. C. Hardy, M.L.C., is at present in Christchurch.

Mr A. Kaye returned from the north yesterday.

Mr John Rigg arrived from Wellington yesterday.

Dr Thompson returned from the north yesterday.

Mr F. J. H. Holloway arrived from j Wellington yesterday.

The Rev Fathers Creagh and Zourka arrived from the north yesterday.

Dr Chesson, District Health Officer, returned from Wellington yesterday.

Mr D. A. Aiken, general manager of, the Union Steam Ship Company, left* for Wellington last evening.

Captain C. H. Fihnis will leave for 1 Akaroa to-day in connection with par-! ades of cadets in that town.

Mr Gifford Moore was a passenger by J the Waliine from Wellington yesterday.* lington yesterday. ;

Mr J. Lockhart and Mr L. Berlyn.< were amongst the arrivals from lington yesterday. '

Mr and Mrs H. Higham and Miss. and Mastei Higham arrived in Christ-\ church yesterday from Western Aus-f tralia.

A Press Association telegram from.] Timaru states that the Rev J. Feather- } ston, Methodist minister, who is being j transferred to Inglewood, was pre-J sented by the congregation with a purso of sovereigns and Mrs Feather-, ston with a gold brooch. j

Mr C. Brook, of Christchurch, and Mdme Betty Brook, have again come' over to England, states the London; correspondent of the " Lyttelton ■ Times," writing on February 11, the' latter, unfortunately, for health. reasons-

Captain Clanville, of the Westport Salvation Army corps, has been appointed to take charge of the St Albans corps, Christchurch, and left Westport yesterday to attend the annual congress at" Wellington prior to going to rSt Albans. Captain and Mrs Sawyer have been appointed to Westport.

Messrs F. C. Hubbard and 0. ; ?Jicholls, members of the Wellington j Y.M.0.A., left for the Australasian j Y.M.C.A. tournament at Brisbane by; the Willochra on Friday. Mr Hubbard represents the New Zealand Associa-! tions in athlfctic _ events, and Mr j Nicholls in the individual gymnastic' competitions

Four Royal Engineer Sergeant-In-_ structors are on their way to New Zea- j land by the Athenic, states the London correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times." These are Sergeants John. Joseph Moore and Edward D. Clough, who go out as instructors in field engineering; and Sergeants A. G. Baker, and E. M. Vickery, who will be in* structors in laying field telephones and telegraphs. Mrs Moore and Mrs Clough \ will accompany their husbands. !

The Prime Minister arrived in Christ-. church from the West Coast last evening and will leave to-morrow j for Dunedin, to deliver a speech at Mosgiel. Mr Massey will return north early next, week, delivering an address ; at Fairlie on Tuesday evening. He ■ will be in Christchurch on the following day but will not speak, and he ; will oroceed north after spending a day here. In Wellington on April 2', he will open the General Booth Memo-' rial Home for the Salvation Army.

Mr H. J. M. Campbell, who repro- i sents Glenelg in the Victorian Legisla-; five Assembly, is on a visit to Christ- ' church. He is a member of the Liberal Party in Victoria and during his tour of the dominion he will inquire into the > workings of the, settlement and industrial laws or this country. Mr Campbell, who i» accompanied by Miss Campbell, will remain in Christchurch a few days and will then proceed to the West j Coast, going from there to Wellington,; Hawke's Bay, Rotorua and Auckland.

After figuring for some weeks in the--Cambridge crew practising for th», inter-'Varsity race, states the London, ] correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times," writing on February 13, Mr R. Gould, the Christchurch oarsman, appears to have been jettisoned. Mr Gould had several trials at No. 2 and also at No. 4, but for the past week or ten days he has been out of th« boat, and it is said that if all goes well with the eight men now forming the crew there will be no further', changes. !

The members of the Public Service, Board of Appeal arrived last nightfrom Greymouth, after having heard, the appeals of officers of the Pubho; Service on the West Coast. The Board, \ which comprises Messrs Peter Barr, (chairman), and J. H. Richardson (no-n-inated members), and A. Marryatt, and F. J. Mouat (elected members), i»! accompanied on its. tour by Messrs A. j D. Thomson, Assistant Public Service Commissioner, H. Gerard and R. A. Aherne (assistant secretary).' The hearing of appeals of local officers will be commenced by the Board to-' morrow. i

The Austrian Archduchess Marie, whose marriage with Prmcej George of Bavaria was declared null, and void by the Pope after the young j bride had left her husband, is now a< Red Cross nurse at the school for such, nurses in Vienna. She has taken up ; her duties in earnest —so much so that-' she declined an invitation to a family* dinner the other evening with her. father, the Archduke .Frederick, his family, because, as she told her eis-j ter, "We have a serious operation on,-' and I cannot get away." The Prin-s cess lives in a simply-furnished roonvt on the premises, and does dispensary/ duty among the poor out-patients everyj morning. She takes her turn in| the afternoons as a nurse in the surgi- > cal wards.